Republicans have a net-zero goal they can finally get behind: not for carbon emissions but for immigration. And they may achieve it as soon as this year. In a July white paper, three economists projected that, in a remarkable departure from decades-long patterns, more foreign-born people will likely leave the United States in 2025 than will enter. In the three months since, the Trump administration’s aggressive actions have driven net migration even lower than expected, one of the authors, Wendy Edelberg of the Brookings Institution, told me. Student-visa numbers are lower than previously anticipated. In September, the Department of Homeland Security boasted that since President Donald Trump’s return to office, it had deported 400,000 people, more than triple the pace of deportations under

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